Best to Laugh: A Novel

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No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" But as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. Every buffet line has a dessert section, however, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems as though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota

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Best to Laugh is cheerfully outlandish, filled with ambition, love, adventure, kindness, swimming pools, nightclubs, and baked goods. Best of all, its laugh-out-loud hilarious.
Julie Schumacher, author of The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls and Dear Committee Members

Best to Laugh had me laughing out loud. Its both funny and tender, and filled with memorable characters. You cant help but love Candy Pekkala and her quirky, mixologist grandmother. Lorna Landvik has written a charming novel with real heart.
Shannon Olson, author of Welcome to My Planet

One of the things that accounts for Lorna Landviks immense popularity is the essential good-heartedness she brings to her work. But as much as this is a celebration of a very special time and place, it is even more a celebration of character, desire, friendship, perseverance, and loveoh, and hamburger hot dish.
Elizabeth Berg, author of Tapestry of Fortunes and The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted

GREAT NOVEL!!! It reads like an autobiography! Best to Laugh, although fiction, is one of the truest accounts of a Hollywood life one can read. It takes a master of comedy to be able to write about the business of laughter. To interpret its roots and inner working. Lorna Landvik is precisely that. I, for one of many, can attribute countless gut busting laughs to the genius of Lorna. A great nostalgic tale.
Mo Collins, actress/comedian

Author Bio

Lorna Landvik is the best-selling author of many novels, including Patty Janes House of Curl, Angry Housewives Eating Bon-Bons, Oh My Stars, and Mayor of the Universe (Minnesota, 2014). She has performed stand-up and improvisational comedy around the country and is also a public speaker, playwright, and actor, most recently seen in an all-improvised, one-woman show Party in the Rec Room.